Prompt of choice: What do you feel giddy about?
I have to say with my obsessive personality and my rotating hobbies that at any given time I am feeling giddy about something. What I really love is when I feel giddy for no darn good reason--it just makes life feel fun. Ironically, what I feel giddy about these days is all in my head.
Some days its photography and my ongoing hunt for the perfect new lens, or my yard as it takes shape and becomes more like the picture in my head. This past week it has been my daughter's room as we have been painting and transforming it into a lovely blue and white, crisp clean and antiquey elegant haven that I may steal and sleep in myself (I will post pictures after the quest for the perfect antique iron bed is over). All summer I have been giddy in spurts about the baby shower I am planning for my sister. But what really has me excited lately is that I have been writing again. . . though clearly not over here! Apparently I can only focus on one writing form at a time.
Do you suppose it is wrong to get so excited about people who don't exist? To talk about them like they are real and I know them? To think about their concerns and issues while I shower and put on makeup? Because that is what I have been doing. Something happens during my day and I suddenly see how this scenario can work into my plot, and how just this sort of thing would drive my character. It's fun. . . its exciting. . . it gets me giddy.
Like blogging, I suddenly need to do things and see things that will inspire me. I do things that I want my characters to do so I can get perspective and then I call all the fun research. Sometimes it drives my husband crazy--he figures to write a book I just need to sit at the computer and type away. . . that makes me laugh. But he drives me to the nearby high school where my character will be attending, and he encourages me to take time to work on it. He still knows how to make me giddy.
One thing is sure, when I am giddy about something everyone gets to hear about it! I have never been good and keeping surprises. I HAVE to tell someone. So my lucky family hears about my latest obsession all the time. And my sisters will likely be able to rewrite this book from scratch by the time it is done. I love my sisters. It is a good thing I have them or friends, acquaintances and complete strangers would wonder why I never shut up about it already--well actually, they may anyway. But I prefer to obsess with my sisters and my mom because they tell me I am brilliant!
Have you been giddy lately?
2 comments:
It's good to have the sense of giddiness for no identifiable reason. It means you are either crazy or happy - your choice. I'd suspect the happy one.
I find the older I get, the less chance of me feeling giddy. I suspect that it is the accumulation of past giddy experiences - many of which led to giddiness the first time they happened and then a golden happy glow with each occurrence thereafter.
Enjoy your giddiness.
I can so relate! My characters have been whispering into my ear, eager to come out and play, but I've been so busy with the "real" people in my life that I've put them on the back burner. I'd better not wait for too long or they might decide to go back to sleep for awhile. Good luck with your writing.
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